Midwives

The Rohingya are a primarily Muslim minority community confined to a small region in Western Myanmar with barely any access to services who are being persecuted by the Buddhist majority. The film portrays two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, who defy the brutal ethnic divide while working side by side in a makeshift medical clinic.

Aung-Thwin is a director/producer and co-founder of Canadian production company EyeSteelFilm (UP THE YANGTZE, LAST TRAIN HOME). He is also half-Burmese, and spent many years teaching filmmaking in... more»